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Catching up

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:08:11 GMT

From the weekend through today, I've done pretty well despite feeling crapish. I worked out on the Active Friday, Sunday and Monday. Saturday was a rest day on there, but I did a significant amount of walking, some of it scurrying to keep up with a skinny guy while hanging up posters for chorus. Today is a rest day also, and I'm actually going to take it as such.

I was proud of myself for working out last night after I had chorus rehearsal (which I don't normally have on Monday, but we needed to rehearse with the men) even though I was tired. The thing that sucked was that the program has a low tolerance for shaking, and I wasn't too steady on some of the strength training exercises. Which led to me getting frustrated and calling the virtual trainer a cunt and flipping off my TV. :\

I've been making healthy food choices for the most part. I'm not pushing too hard on that while I don't feel well. I did go and get some batteries for my scale so I could weight myself. It was about what I expected, so there's not much I can say about that. I don't intend to check it again for another few weeks, until I finish my 30-day challenge. It's more important that I *feel* better.

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The last couple days

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:14:18 GMT

have been good, for the most part! I've done "the weekday usual" for breakfast and lunch, and I made a pasta dish on Wednesday that I finished up last night. It was whole wheat spirals with diced tomatoes, cannellini beans and green beans with garlic, Italian seasoning, and some parmesan. I'm working on keeping enough healthy snacks around that I can have those things instead of junk, but the process is incomplete. I'm okay with that. :)

I've done my 30-day challenge workout on the Wii both days, even though it was late yesterday by the time I got home from getting my hair cut. The workouts are varied enough that I'm feeling a bit sore every morning--nothing horrible, but enough to know that I am working. I'm probably going to end up using Saturday as a rest day from the 30-day challenge, as I'm going to be doing a bunch of walking.

Also planned for this weekend is sewing a nicer, sturdier pocket for the nunchuck onto my bike shorts.

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Maybe tried TOO hard today

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:17:21 GMT

I did well most of the day today. Worked out briefly in the morning, the usual weekday breakfast of yogurt and low-sugar oatmeal. I had a Healthy Choice frozen meal for lunch and as a treat had a two-pack of Oreo peanut butter cakesters. I came home from work, ate a snack of a small bowl of whole grain cereal with soy milk, and then did Day 2 of the Sports Active 30 day challenge.

The workout kicked my butt, lots of pounding on my feet, and then I had to run off to chorus practice. Of course, practice turned out to be two hours of being on my feet 3/4 of the time or more. WOE. I also started to feel kind of funky, probably low blood sugar from dinner being delayed on top of working out and all that standing. I'm so damn glad to be home and fed, and I'm clearly going to have to make chorus days rest days.

I made tilapia microwaved with seasoning and a smidge of butter with lots of broccoli and snow peas, and I also drank one of those wee single-serving bottles of White Zinfandel. I'm still kind of hungry, sadly, and REALLY ish I had some fruit on hand. I need to do better about keeping healthy snacks around, and in the absence of something better I'm probably going to have a small handful of sour patch kids. Oh well.

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falls over

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:28:55 GMT

OMG, so sore from doing the Sports Active last night! My arms and legs both, wow. So it was a good workout! And I'm proud of myself for working out a little this morning with the Just Dance. I only did six minutes--the short versions of three songs--but that's six minutes more than I can generally make myself do in the morning. I'd like to eventually do 10-15 minutes most mornings, even if it's low-intensity.

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Trying not to suck

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:43:58 GMT

Okay, I've failed at posting here. I've been mired in an attack of the blahs, but I'm trying to get out of it. I have exercised in small amounts off and on and been sometimes okay and sometimes rather not okay about eating healthy.

Today I decided to start the 30 day challenge on EA Sports Active. I only did 15 minutes, but it was not easy! I had to skip a few lower-body exercises because the leg strap thing is just not working for me. It was too small, and I got some extra velcro so that it fits, but it won't stay on. I guess my thighs are just too tapered and soft, but I have a plan. The walk/run works okay with the nunchuck in my pocket, but the squats and lunges just didn't register. So I'm going to take a snug pair of capris and sew a small pocket on the front of the right thigh to hold the nunchuck. Then I can just wear those pants when I use the Sports Active--good enough.

The sections I did were walking/running (in place), inline skating, and some various arm-strengthening exercises with the resistance band. Oh, and boxing! I'm really kind of loving boxing on the Wii. I'm planning to do some Just Dance tonight after dinner settles. ;)

ETA: I got my nunchuck pocket (made out of most of the foot part of an orphan sock) sewn on and did a short custom workout on Sports Active to test it out. Looks goofy: check. Works: check. Needs to be sewn on better: Double check.

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Saturday

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:32:28 GMT

Move:

I played on the Wii on and off throughout the day. My stamina is not so great, so it's good to be able to turn it on, play for 10 or 15 minutes and then go on to something else. I also did a major straighten-up/clean-out of the living room so I can have a bit more room to move around in.

Nourish:

I slept in and had "multigrain" waffles and eggs for brunch.
Snacks at various times were an apple, a few granola bite things, a light ice cream sandwich, and a banana.
Dinner was these sundried tomato tofu dumplings with a bunch of green beans.
I'll be having a chocolate chip scone, ~~or maybe just half~~. Let's be real, it'll be the whole thing.

Notes:

I made the mistake of waiting too long to make plans for dinner. I didn't feel like cooking, so I was going to order Thai, but then the Thai place I usually call for delivery didn't have fresh rolls, and then the second one wouldn't give me a side order of extra veggies. Made of fail, Thai places. So I got close to caving and ordering a big pizza that I would have eaten all of and instead got in the car and drove to the natural food store (which is close). Green beans from their hot bar and dumplings from the deli section. Planning better is important to me doing better. :)

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Getting going

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:35:34 GMT

I have a lot of issues/problems with trying to get fit, eat healthier, lose weight, etc. I totally believe in health at any size and in the beauty of people of size, so it often feels like a kind of betrayal of that to work on losing weight. OTOH, my goal is NOT to be thin, just to be more of a smaller/moderate plus-size rather than barely still fitting in plus-size. And I'd like to have the energy to do more things in general.

Another problem I tend to run into is that I'm Little Miss Muffet. I'm either working on this thing full-on and thinking of little else and being nearly perfect or I'm eating whatever the fuck I want and never purposely exercising. I need to find a balance, a middle ground. I need to find a way to make this work that's sustainable so I don't burn out. I usually go to walking for exercise, but between cold, rain and our sticky hot summers I have excuses more days than not. I do live in a great neighborhood for walking, so I do plan to keep it as an option--I just need other options.

I don't really have room for exercise equipment, and I definitely don't have the money for the kind of equipment that would accommodate my weight without crapping out. So I bought a Wii, my first video game system ever. I don't have a Wii fit, partially because the boards are scarce and partially because I've heard that the game itself scolds you for tiny weight fluctuations. I got the EA Sports Active, and Just Dance, plus of course the sports games. I'm keeping an eye on craigslist to get the Wii Fit board without the game.

I know what I need to do food-wise. What I like to do is focus on whole grains, veggies, fruits and beans with low-fat dairy and eggs because I do like those things and they fill me up and make me feel good in the long-term. Of course, what I *want* a lot of the time is pizza and ice cream and fried tofu, so I need to have those sometimes, too. I'm vegetarian, but I've been experimenting with adding fish/seafood back into my diet. That's as far as I would go--the thought of eating poultry or red meat is *bad*. Plus, there are good substitutes for those things, but fish and seafood can't be copied well.

So, I'm trying. Again. And I'm not expecting myself to be perfect.

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Starting here

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:45:21 GMT

Move:

I did about 30-40 minutes of on-and-off playing on the Wii in Just Dance and boxing on the Wii Sports. Yesterday was my first day with the Wii, and I'm a bit sore.

Nourish:

Oatmeal & yogurt for breakfast, plus a Smart Ones brownie & ice cream thing. Meh.
Subway veggie patty footlong on honey oat for lunch. Peanut butter egg for a snack.
Whole wheat pasta with veggies and a bit of cheese for dinner, plus an ice cream sandwich.

Goal:

More water, more fruit, fewer chocolatey snacks. OTOH, I'm PMSing and the peanut butter egg kept me from ramming my car into other cars in order to express my rage. ;)

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